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A wildfire that erupted over the weekend has ripped through central Portugal killing over 60 people and injured dozens more. According to the Portuguese Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa, eight firefighters are among the injured and four of those are in critical condition.

The Royal Family kicked off their summer calendar at the opening of the Royal Ascot on Tuesday. The Queen led the crowd in a minute of silence for the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the terror attacks in London and Manchester.

Kites flew over Tam Thanh beach Sunday during an International Kite Festival in Quang Nam province, Vietnam. Hundreds of flying giant sea creatures, animal shaped and folklore inspired kites from 20 countries were taken to the sky.

Babies take part in a Baby Race to mark international Children Day in Vilnius, Lithuania on June 1, 2017.
Ten-month-old Mykolas Pociunas crawled to victory to be crowned Lithuania’s fastest toddler, lured across the finish line by a box of Lego plastic bricks. Parents and grandparents waved colorful toys, mobile, phones, balloons, TV remote controls, plastic bottles and even bagels to get their tots across the finish line.

Watson Saint Fleur is 12 but he’s never attended a day of school. He’s toiled in hardship doing household chores and peddling plastic bags of drinking water along city streets noisy with motorbikes and trucks.

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying two astronauts after a half-year aboard the International Space Station landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Friday, June 2, 2017. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet were on the ISS crew.

El Rocio pilgrimage is the largest in Spain, with hundreds of thousands of devotees wearing traditional outfits converging in a burst of color as they make their way on horseback and decorated carriages across the Andalusian countryside.